The Business Administration degree teaches you how to understand how companies work and how they interact with the economic, financial, and legal environment around them. It offers a solid and flexible education, closely connected to the real business world. The program is designed to help you develop the skills needed to manage a company — whether you want to enter the job market after three years or continue with a Master’s degree. The curriculum covers business, economics, law, and quantitative subjects, giving you the tools to interpret and deal with today’s changing economic landscape. Key topics include: digital transformation, globalization, the growth of the service sector, international expansion of companies, process digitalization, and increasing competitive uncertainty. It’s a demanding but stimulating program, based on a well-balanced mix of courses from different academic areas. Particular attention is given to soft skills, which are highly valued by employers today. You can also give your studies an international outlook by spending time abroad at one of our many partner universities or by joining the Double Degree with the University of Augsburg. Classes take place in a modern facility located in the Darsena area — the beating heart of the Port of Genoa. The building offers large classrooms, computer labs, and study spaces where you can collaborate with fellow students in a welcoming, community-focused environment. You’ll also have the chance to take part in the life of the Department of Economics by joining seminars, workshops, conferences, and in-class talks — connecting with national and international managers and entrepreneurs. What will you study The first year is devoted to basic education with which you begin to understand the logic of businesses, organizations, and the markets in which they operate. The economics teachings help you understand how economic systems work, whether at the general level (macroeconomics), at the level of individual firms or consumers (microeconomics), or from a historical perspective. Business economics teaching, on the other hand, introduces you to the business world. In the second year you delve into the functioning of businesses, focusing on administrative accounting aspects and business strategies and decisions in addition to approaching the financial environment, in terms of the intermediaries, markets, and supervisory bodies with which businesses must deal. Throughout the two-year course you also study the legal aspects of the business world and the mathematical tools for understanding and using different economic and management models, complemented by language and computer skills. In the third year you delve into the main business functions (marketing, organization, finance, etc.), the logic and techniques of management control and management of international businesses. You can also choose to focus on employment law or tax law and better understand the economics of taxation or economic and financial policies. The course can be customized with: other educational workshop activities; teaching in the English language; other foreign languages, such as French, German, Spanish and Chinese culture; in-company internships with recognition of educational credits; study periods abroad; the IANUA-ISSUGE pathway - University of Genoa High School. After graduation After graduation you can: enter the job market right away and choose from a wide range of high-skilled professional roles; work in business, financial or management consulting, or start your own business; continue your studies in a Master’s Degree Program or a first-level university Master. The Bachelor of Business Administration graduate Who is a Business Administration Graduate? The graduate in Business Administration has strong, multidisciplinary skills in business management. This background allows them to take on qualified roles in different functional areas of companies, organizational or coordination roles in public administration, as well as positions in business and financial consulting or freelance professions. What do they do? In private firms, Business Administration graduates can work within multiple functional areas: accounting administration and budgeting; strategic and operational planning; management control; finance; marketing and sales; organization and human resource management; logistics and procurement. In public administrations, they can access operational roles and responsibilities related to different areas such as organization, administration and planning. They can also take the examination for access to Section B of the Register of Certified Public Accountants and Accounting Experts and Labor Consultants, perform economic-management and accounting consulting or entrepreneurial activities. Where do they work? private, commercial and industrial firms - national or nternational; public administrations; economic-management and accounting consulting firms; freelance professionals; self-employed or business owners.
